ATi launching IGC for Athlon?

[Akaz1976]

Its in the paper here (Toronto) today, that ATi will introduce both Intel and AMD IGC (Intergrated Graphics Chipset) today. I know about the upcoming Radeon based IGC for P4 (tho i thought it would be coming later in the year) but had no inkling of an AMD IGC by ATi!

Can any one confirm this? i see nothing on ATi website.

Also any one what exactly will 3d Labs/Creative will be selling in desktop market later this year or is the information still confidential?

Thanx

Akaz

EDIT: it seems its IGP 320 and 320M (North bridges) for athlon/duron processors (M for mobile) and IGP 330 for P4.

 

[Buzzman151]

w00t w00t for ATI.... now I just wonder what version they will try to integrate onto the boards.... hopefully the 8500

 

[Akaz1976]

Well its being announced at CeBIT so i am sure they have disclosed (or will disclose shortly) which version of Radeon will it be.

Is this move into AMD chipset market by ATi news? or did people already know about.

Akaz

 

[Mavrick007]

Here's what I read about it not long ago.



<< ATI A3 North Bridge for the AMD Platform is expected to be released in March (at CeBit - 13 to 20th March). The A3 is expected to support PC2100 and PC1600 DDR SDRAM over a 64-bit memory bus and contain integrated UMA graphics as well as an external AGP 4X slot. The integrated graphics core is expected to be based around ATI's RV200 core, which itself is based around the original Radeon 256 core and contains 2 pixel pipelines with 3 texture units per pipeline. The RV200 core offers DirectX 7 support. The South Bridge is expected to connect over the PCI bus, so motherboard manufacturers can connect one of many South Bridges to this North Bridge (e.g. VIA's 686B). The cost of the A3 is expected to be noticeably less than nVidia's nForce chipset, although performance is expected to be worse than the nForce 420.

ATI A4 North Bridge for the Intel Pentium 4 Platform is expected to be released in March (at CeBit - 13 to 20th March, although it may be released later in the year). The A4 is expected to support PC2700 (DDR333) in addition to the PC2100 and PC1600 DDR SDRAM supported by the A3. The A4, like the A3, contains integrated UMA graphics, built around ATI's RV200 core, as well as an external AGP 4X slot.

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[GTaudiophile]

Here's more info on Anandtech's front page...

 

[ElFenix]

good strategy on ATi's part, putting power saving features into the chipset. should be able to wreak some havoc on the ultralight and cheapy notebook markets, and perhaps even come up with a pricing bundle to get it and mobile radeon into more high end notebooks.


shouldn't be spectacularly performing, but its aiming for a market segment that exists currently (unlike nforce). decent little machine could be put together with this and a c-media sound chip.